According to Assistant US Attorney James Pastore in a memo to hacker Hector Xavier Monsegur's sentencing judge, the hacker should be given a reduced sentence considering the fact that he had aided in the prevention of at least 300 cyber-attacks.
Lawyers for Chesapeake Energy Corp accused the state of Michigan for resorting to selective picking of portions of its email exchanges to supposedly prove that the company and Canadian rival Encana Corp conspired to secure energy leases ahead of a scheduled auction, Bloomberg reported.
Legal experts have said that it is unlikely that Apple Inc could have its latest request to ban the sales of the older models of Samsung Electronics Co phones considering that the judge is the same one who had denied two earlier requests, Bloomberg said.
Colombia's tax and customs agency, DIAN, is currently working with the US Attorney General's office in a money laundering probe regarding the involvement of gold trading firms, agency head Ricardo Ortega said.
